warmseth
Tue 12/20/05, 12:00AM
Race #3
originally posted on 12/20/05
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this weekend marked my 3rd race that i've done. i did my first two practice sessions aboard my very ill running (sputtering under 7k) sv. the first session was very cold and quite damp. it was hair raising...like riding on ice, especially T3 which was a real butt pucker of a turn. 2nd session was raining cats and dogs but interestingly, less slippery feeling. by the time i raced (race 12) the track was totally dry and it had warmed up enough that i should not have been riding as slow as i was but there i was slow poking like never before. i started in grid #5 and got passed by half a dozen i-4s within the first couple of laps, then the most gorgeous sv snuck up and passed me out of T5 into 6. Michael Bisig #728 just kept pullling on me more and more until by the end of the race he was half a lap ahead of me. i was pretty bumbed about that. then later i found out he isn't a novice so i felt slightly better...unless he loaned his bike to a legitimate novice, then i feel crummy again. anyway, i didn't finish last (10th out of 14) and i didn't crash. and i rode in the rain for the first time...that's right i've NEVER ridden in the rain much less at pace. so overall though the results weren't stellar, not a bad weekend. shandra i tried to catch you a couple times to say howdy but you were preoccupied every time i went to say hi...next time. see y'all in january
originally posted on 12/20/05
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this weekend marked my 3rd race that i've done. i did my first two practice sessions aboard my very ill running (sputtering under 7k) sv. the first session was very cold and quite damp. it was hair raising...like riding on ice, especially T3 which was a real butt pucker of a turn. 2nd session was raining cats and dogs but interestingly, less slippery feeling. by the time i raced (race 12) the track was totally dry and it had warmed up enough that i should not have been riding as slow as i was but there i was slow poking like never before. i started in grid #5 and got passed by half a dozen i-4s within the first couple of laps, then the most gorgeous sv snuck up and passed me out of T5 into 6. Michael Bisig #728 just kept pullling on me more and more until by the end of the race he was half a lap ahead of me. i was pretty bumbed about that. then later i found out he isn't a novice so i felt slightly better...unless he loaned his bike to a legitimate novice, then i feel crummy again. anyway, i didn't finish last (10th out of 14) and i didn't crash. and i rode in the rain for the first time...that's right i've NEVER ridden in the rain much less at pace. so overall though the results weren't stellar, not a bad weekend. shandra i tried to catch you a couple times to say howdy but you were preoccupied every time i went to say hi...next time. see y'all in january